Figure Drawing Reading
1 .What rationale for figure drawing or studying the human form can you find in this article?
Drawing and studying the human figure can help students engage in a variety of topics, including identity, body, gender, race, sexuality, and beauty. It is one of the most expressive art forms, through which many important ideas can be conveyed. Students are flooded every day by images in visual culture that romanticize, glorify, and demean the human body. Studying and drawing the human form can encourage reflection, exploration, and confrontation of these issues. It also teaches important skills in the form of hand and eye discipline, and promotes originality in artists’ work. Students will be able to realize the expressive possibilities in drawing the human figure, and gain a greater appreciation for the complex issues surrounding depictions of the human form in art, advertising, and popular visual culture. Students will also become familiar with how the human form is used by contemporary artists in their work, and the connections those artists make with past traditions and ideas about the body.
2. What art making activities does this article describe?
Drawing and studying the human figure can help students engage in a variety of topics, including identity, body, gender, race, sexuality, and beauty. It is one of the most expressive art forms, through which many important ideas can be conveyed. Students are flooded every day by images in visual culture that romanticize, glorify, and demean the human body. Studying and drawing the human form can encourage reflection, exploration, and confrontation of these issues. It also teaches important skills in the form of hand and eye discipline, and promotes originality in artists’ work. Students will be able to realize the expressive possibilities in drawing the human figure, and gain a greater appreciation for the complex issues surrounding depictions of the human form in art, advertising, and popular visual culture. Students will also become familiar with how the human form is used by contemporary artists in their work, and the connections those artists make with past traditions and ideas about the body.
2. What art making activities does this article describe?
- Drawing from fashion magazines
- Considering how the human form was depicted traditionally in art history- discussing the ideas of beauty, proportion, and anatomy to create art during the Greek/Roman times.
- Ask students to consider daily rituals they perform- how could those rituals become a performance?
- What significance do skeletons have in visual art and culture? Do a drawing of a skeleton, emphasizing large shapes and proportions.
- Gesture drawings based on traditional Greek sculptures
- Create collages with gesso and torn paper
3. What artists are mentioned in this article?
- Elizabeth Peyton
- Marlene Dumas
- William Kentridge
- Kiki Smith
- Kara Walker
- John Curran
4. Mark Bradford
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